Joel 1:13

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.

1 Kings 21:27

And when Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;

Isaiah 61:6

but you shall be called the priests of the Lord, men shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory.

Jeremiah 4:8

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.”

Jeremiah 9:10

“Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.

Ezekiel 21:12

Cry and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel; they are delivered over to the sword with my people. Smite therefore upon your thigh.

Ezekiel 27:31

they make themselves bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

Ezekiel 7:18

They gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror covers them; shame is upon all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

Hosea 9:5

What will you do on the day of appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” says the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Joel 2:14

Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, a cereal offering and a drink offering for the Lord, your God?

Joel 2:17

Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Spare thy people, O Lord, and make not thy heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Numbers 28:14

Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.

Numbers 28:4

The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening;

Numbers 28:7

Its drink offering shall be a fourth of a hin for each lamb; in the holy place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the Lord.

Numbers 29:6

besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its cereal offering, and the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offering, according to the ordinance for them, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:1

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 6:4

but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”